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1 | This directory contains a Mac OS X port of PuTTY/pterm, running as a |
2 | native Aqua GUI application. |
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4 | THIS PORT IS CURRENTLY UNFINISHED AND EXPERIMENTAL. It is _not_ |
5 | considered to be of release quality, even if you've found it (and |
6 | are reading this) in a PuTTY release source archive. You are welcome |
7 | to try using it, but don't be surprised at unexpected behaviour. I'm |
8 | not kidding. |
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10 | In particular, I have not yet decided where OS X PuTTY should store |
11 | its configuration data. Options include storing it in ~/.putty to be |
12 | compatible with Unix PuTTY, storing it wherever is compatible with |
13 | Mac Classic PuTTY, storing it in a natively OS X location, or |
14 | sorting out the `config-locations' wishlist item and doing all |
15 | three. Therefore, if you start using this port and create a whole |
16 | load of saved sessions, you should not be surprised if a future |
17 | version of the port decides to look somewhere completely different |
18 | for the data and therefore loses them all. If that happens, don't |
19 | say you weren't warned! |
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21 | Other ways in which the port is currently unfinished include: |
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23 | Missing terminal window features |
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26 | - terminal display is horribly slow |
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28 | - fonts aren't configurable |
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30 | - several features are unimplemented in the terminal display: |
31 | underlining, non-solid-block cursors, double-width and |
32 | double-height line attributes, bold as font rather than as |
33 | colour, wide (CJK) characters, combining characters. |
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35 | - there's no scrollbar |
36 | |
37 | - terminal window resizing isn't implemented yet |
38 | |
39 | - proper window placement (cascading down and right from the |
40 | starting position, plus remembering previous window positions per |
41 | the Apple HIG) is not implemented |
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43 | Missing alert box features |
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45 | |
46 | - warn-on-close isn't implemented |
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48 | Missing input features |
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50 | |
51 | - use of Alt+numberpad to enter arbitrary numeric character codes |
52 | is not yet supported |
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54 | - there's no Meta key yet. (I'd like to at least have the |
55 | possibility of using Command rather than Option as the Meta key, |
56 | since the latter is necessary to send some characters, including |
57 | the rather important # on Apple UK keyboards; but trapping |
58 | Command-<key> and sending it to the window rather than the |
59 | application menu requires me to make a positive effort of some |
60 | sort and I haven't got round to it yet. For those Mac users who |
61 | consider their Command key sacrosanct, don't worry, this option |
62 | _will_ be configurable and _will_ be off by default.) |
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64 | - there's no specials menu |
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66 | - mouse activity isn't supported (neither cut-and-paste nor xterm |
67 | mouse tracking) |
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69 | Missing terminal emulation features |
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72 | - currently no support for server-side window management requests |
73 | (i.e. escape sequences to minimise or maximise the window, |
74 | request or change its position and size, change its title etc) |
75 | |
76 | - window title is currently fixed |
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78 | Other missing features |
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81 | - no Event Log |
82 | |
83 | - no mid-session Change Settings |